Northern indigenous music lecture series

Submitted by Linda Harriger
Phone: (907) 474-7555
02/23/05

UAA faculty member and composer, Craig Coray, will be in Fairbanks to deliver a public lecture series, Songs of the First People, prior to the start of the Festival of Native Arts.

Each of the lectures will focus on different aspects of northern indigenous music.

1. Tuesday, March 1st, at 11:30 a.m. in the Charles Davis Concert Hall, Coray’s lecture is titled Casting Spells: When Songs Were Magic.

2. Tuesday, March 1st at 7:00pm in the Schaible Auditorium, the lecture to be presented is titled Caribou Sings: Animism in Native Music

3. Wednesday, March 2nd at 7:00pm in the Charles Davis Concert Hall, the lecture is Northern Indigenous Music by Region

4. Thursday, March 3rd at 1:00pm in the Charles Davis Concert Hall, Coray will present the last of his series, Our Native Music: A Listener’s Guide

These lectures are the fruit of years of intensive research to develop a curriculum for his course in native music at UAA and to build a library collection. The lectures are supported in part by grants from First Alaskan Institute, the Rasmuson Foundation, and the Alaska Humanities Forum.

Craig Coray has been on the faculty of the University of Alaska Anchorage since 1974, where he teaches courses in theory, piano and northern indigenous music.

For more information, please call the UAF Music Department at 474-7555 or email Craig Coray at coray@gci.net

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